"What's going on?"

Arriving at the infirmary, Fang Zheng saw Julie, Tachibana and others lying on the sickbeds. Among them, Julie and Hodaka Masaru were the most seriously injured, Tachibana and Nagakura Imari were also in a miserable state. Only Toudou Kirin looked slightly better, but she was also pale and looked exhausted.

Seeing Fang Zheng coming back, the girls all breathed a sigh of relief. And Toudou Qilin also ran over and hugged Fang Zheng.

"elder brother!!"

"Okay, I'm back, don't be afraid..."

Fang Zheng also revealed a smile at this moment, and reached out to touch Toudou Qilin's head. Feeling Fang Zheng's touch, Toudou Qilin calmed down a little, and then she sobbed and began to tell the story of what happened.

It turned out that after Fang Zheng went to Pojun Academy, Xijing Ningyin also started a special course for the girls. According to Dao Teng Qilin, Xijing Ningyin wanted them to go to the woods in the west of the island for training, saying that there were invaders coming to the island, and their mission was to defeat and eliminate the invaders.

No matter life or death.

This scared the girls at the time. Although Haoling Academy has always had combat training close to actual combat level, this was the first time that it could determine life and death.

But Xijing Ningyin obviously didn't care about this. She was the third place in the KOK of the Sword Slayer Competition. The KOK competition of the Sword Slayer was not as peaceful as the Star Martial Festival. It was normal to lose arms and legs. Because there were many people and equipment specializing in healing abilities in the Sword Slayer, basically as long as you didn't chop off the head or pierce the heart to kill people on the spot, you could survive no matter how seriously injured you were.

This also led to the fact that in Xijing Ningyin's view, the training and competition here were like child's play.

So she specifically requested that it didn't matter whether he lived or died.

But the girls obviously couldn't accept it. If Fang Zheng was here, they would have a backbone. But Fang Zheng was not here, and Xijing Ningyin said that this was their homework, and if they couldn't complete it, they would be expelled from the school.

So the girls had no choice but to go. Of course, they also thought that no matter what, they would just use the property of the Dawn Star Soul Weapon that it would not harm people to subdue it.

But...something strange happened.

At the beginning, the five girls were divided into two groups, Julie, Tachibana and Hodaka Masa in one group, and Toto Kirin and Nagakura Imari in the other. They explored the hidden target in the woods from two directions, and then they were attacked by a group of mysterious people in robes.

but……

“This group of people is very strange.”

Toudou Qilin also looked uneasy when she recalled the scene at that time.

"They don't have any murderous intent."

"No murderous intent?"

It must be said that this is indeed quite strange. Normally, people would have murderous intent when launching an attack. In fact, warriors at Toudou Qilin's level can basically sense the aura of the opponent before the opponent attacks. However, this time, Toudou Qilin and others did not react until the opponent attacked them.

Because they didn't notice the existence of these people, when they launched the attack, Toudou Qilin and the others were naturally at a disadvantage. They became flustered. Of course, they had undergone the sublimation ceremony after all, not to mention that Toudou Qilin was the number one in the Xingdaokan Academy. Her strength was there, and ordinary Xingmai generation would not be able to get away with a sneak attack on her.

So quickly, Todo Kirin and Nagakura Imari blocked the surprise attack and launched a counterattack.

Then... they were surprised to discover something else.

That is, their soul weapons are actually effective against these attackers!

As a soul weapon, the Dawn Star Mark will not cause physical harm to humans without the intention to kill, but it will cause mental harm. For example, if you use a soul weapon to chop the opponent's shoulder, even if the shoulder is intact from a physical perspective, the mind will feel a sharp pain from the shoulder as if it was chopped.

Although these robed men concealed their aura and were difficult to detect, their fighting skills were not particularly advanced, so after the initial panic, the two men immediately turned defense into offense, began to counterattack, and hit those robed men with the soul weapons in their hands.

Then something strange happened.

That is, these people in robes actually had their hands and feet chopped off by soul weapons!

The two were really scared now. They didn't want to kill anyone! And logically speaking, soul weapons should not cause harm to humans when there is no murderous intent condensed into a physical entity, right? !

How could it hurt someone directly?

At that time, the two of them were stunned.

But the other side won’t care about your mental state and will just shoot a volley of bullets at you.

Fortunately, Nagakura Imari was more mature and stable after all. Seeing that things were not going well, he hurriedly pulled Todo Kirin and ran away.

See, I told you.

Hearing this, Fang Zheng nodded silently in his heart. He had previously thought that this was the reason why Toudou Qilin could not pass the trial. Although this child was highly skilled in martial arts, he was too kind-hearted and not firm enough when faced with a crisis. This meant that when things went smoothly on weekdays, there was no problem, but once the situation suddenly changed, he lacked the ability to cope.

For example, Todo Kirin didn't intend to kill anyone, but suddenly she hurt someone, so she was naturally confused.

But... after all, he is just a thirteen-year-old child, so we can't ask too much.

Fortunately, both of them escaped in the end.

But the other side was not so lucky.

Looking at the appearances of Julie and Hodaka Masa, you can tell that they were seriously injured and are still unconscious. And looking at the gauze wrapped around their bodies, you can tell that they suffered a lot of injuries.

but……

"What's going on?"

Fang Zheng stared at Juba and asked. He saw clearly that the injuries of the two people were very strange. In fact, Fang Zheng could tell at a glance that they were injured to protect others. Among the three people, Juba was the least injured, so the answer was self-evident.

"It's...it's my fault."

At this moment, Juba no longer had her usual fortitude, but lowered her head, looking very cowardly - this was a rare situation for her. Then, she stammered and explained the situation.

The initial encounter of the three of them was the same as that of Toudou Qilin and the others, the only difference was that before the other party launched the attack, Julie seemed to have sensed some kind of crisis and responded in advance. However, because Tachibana was too confident in his own strength, he thought that it was okay as long as he didn't feel the murderous intent, so he didn't take it seriously.

This also led to her being attacked by the opponent.

Fortunately, Julie discovered this and pushed Tachibana away, but at the cost of being injured. Hodaka Masa also took action to protect the two. Unfortunately, because of her weapon, Hodaka Masa was very slow and not flexible, which caused her to be at a loss when facing the attacks of the robes at first.

But in the end, Hodaka Masaru also became furious, and swung the knight's spear that was taller than a person, smashing a robe to the ground and breaking it into pieces.

It was not until then that everyone discovered...

"That's not a person at all, that's a machine... In short, that's not a human being."

Unlike Toudou Kirin, after discovering that the opponent they were facing was not human, the three girls put aside their hesitation, defeated it in one go, and then withdrew from the forest. At this moment, Chairman Kujuku Sakuya, who received the report, also rushed over and sent the injured to the infirmary for treatment, while the people of the Dawn Organization entered the forest to recover the broken fragments.

"I see."

After listening to the conversations from both sides, Fang Zheng nodded.

"I'll take care of this matter. You guys stay here and recover first."

After comforting the girls, Fang Zheng went to the chairman's office - as expected, Xijing Ningyin and Jiujiu Sakuya were both there.

"You did it?"

Fang Zheng looked at Xijing Ningyin and asked curiously. The latter shook his head and then nodded.

"I felt something was invading, but I didn't expect it to be something so strange."

In fact, when Fang Zheng first heard what the girls said, he thought it was a combat drill prepared by Xijing Ningyin. After all, if you want to awaken your ability, you must be between life and death. So he came to Xijing Ningyin first to ask if she was behind it. As a result, Xijing Ningyin said that she did set up this plan because she felt that a group of strange guys sneaked onto the island, so she asked the girls to investigate and deal with those guys by the way.

Unexpectedly... the person who came was not a human.

"Are the test results out yet?"

Fang Zheng looked at Jiujiu Sakuya, who frowned.

"No results, but from the material analysis of the fragments and wreckage, in Academy City, only the Alecanth Institute has this capability."

"I just guessed it would be them."

"Because of the restraining order?"

Jiujiu Sakuya was the representative of the Dawn Organization, so she naturally knew about the proposal proposed by Fang Zheng. Although she felt that the proposal was a bit exaggerated, she still voted in favor of it with a supportive attitude. Anyway, the Holy Mother's Rope was also a competitor of the Dawn Organization, so it was good to cause trouble for the competitor.

However, Jiujiu Sakuya did not expect that the Alekante Research Institute would directly attack Haoling Academy for this reason?

Is it so cruel?

Jiujiu Sakuya is also a genius, but her major is Dawn Star Pattern, and she has no research on artificial intelligence. She doesn't understand why the Alecanth Research Institute is so angry over such a small matter. After all, in her opinion, Fang Zheng's proposal is only to ban autonomous machines with human shells, not to ban Alecanth from researching artificial intelligence. Is it necessary to be so angry?

"Some things may seem trivial to some people, but they may be life-threatening to others."

Fang Zheng snorted coldly. He was now 100% sure that there was indeed such an ambitious guy in the Alecante Research Institute. Fang Zheng had originally proposed that suggestion just to prepare for a rainy day and prevent trouble before it happened. He hadn't expected that it would turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

"But we can't cause trouble to the Alejandro Institute for this."

Jiujiu Sakuya was also very unhappy. Although these robots were taken by Xijing Ningyin as props for students to train, it was not too much of a loss. However, it was their own territory and the other party directly broke in to cause trouble... Did they really think that the Dawn Organization was a soft persimmon that could be easily bullied?

Unfortunately, after the Dawn Agency's research department investigated the remains of the robots, they did not get any clues related to the Alecanth Institute. Just because this thing is a robot, it can't be said that it must have been made by the Alecanth Institute.

The other party won’t admit it either.

"It's okay... let's leave it at that for now."

Fang Zheng thought about it for a while and came to a conclusion.

"I will find a way to deal with them. Don't worry, I will make them kneel down at the school gate and call them daddy."

"…Don't overdo it."

What can I say on the night of Ninety-nine Sakuras?

That’s all I can say.